Locating-buoy.



A. MURRAY.

LOCATING BUOY- APPLI CATION FILED Aue.21, 1914.

Patented ,May 16, 1916.

. ITE STATES PA EN ALLAN MURRAY, or roar ARTHUR, ONTARIO, CANADA.

LOCATING-BUOY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLAN MURRAY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of 30 Banning street, in the city of Port Arthur, District of Thunder Bay, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Locating-Buoys, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in locating buoys as described in the present specification and shown in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel construction and arrangement of parts whereby a receptacle is provided within the buoy and whereby a signal is automatically displayed to attract attention to the buoy when floating on the water.

The objects of the invention are to facilitate the locating of sunken vessels, to preserve valuables, such as money and jewelry and generally to provide a locating buoy which will be strong and durable and cheap to manufacture.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the covering removed from the casing and the sides of said casing partly opened and the buoy therein. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the buoy with the cable unwound and the signaling device displayed, the side being partly broken away to disclose the inner receptacle. Fig. 3 is a detail of the spring operating the signaling device.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the buoy substantially spool or drum shape in design, formed of the cylinder 2, said cylinder having in the top thereof the longitudinal groove 3 and in the interior thereof the receptacle 4, and the heads or ends 5 and 6,

said ends being of somewhat greater circumference than the cylinder 2.

7 is a door on the end 5 provided with suitable gaskets and adapted to close the end 8 of the receptacle 4, said door being spring held in its closed position by the spring 9.

10 is a lever suitably hinged to the end 5 above the door 7 and fastening to the lower side of said end 5 thus holding the 1 said door 7 in its closed position.

11 is a spring, secured in the groove 3 adjacent to the end 6 and attached to the Specification of Letters Patent. Patntefl lvlay 16,1916,

Application filed August 27, 1914. Serial No. 858,869.

- hinged staff 12 from which is flown a flag 13 or other signal shown, said arm when not in use folding down into the groove 3.

14 is a cable secured at one end to the cylinder 2 and wound therearound, thus holding the arm 12 in position in the groove 3, and at its other end secured to the bottom 15 of a collapsible casing 16 fastened to the deck of the vessel, said casing being formed of the outwardly folding sides and ends 17 and 18 and having the covering 19 adapted to overlap the said sides and ends and hold them in their upward position.

In the operation of this invention the casing 16 is placed on the upper deck of the vessel and the valuables placed within the receptacle 4 and when the said vessel becomes submerged the water raises the covering 19 causing the sides 17 and ends 18 to fall outwardly thus leaving the buoy free to rise in the water.

The action of the water in raising the buoy causes the cable 14 to unwind and when it has unwound to its full extent the arm 12 is released from the groove 3 and springs upwardly displaying the signal 13 to be noticed by any passing vessel.

What I claim is:

1. A locating buoy comprising a drum having an opening inone of its heads, a door tightly closing said opening, a cable secured to said drum and adapted to wind therearound and a collapsible receptacle secured to the other end of said cable.

2. A locating buoy comprising. a drum having an opening in one head, a door spring-held to its closed position over said opening and suitably packed, a lever securely fastened to said drum and engaging said door, a cable secured to said drum and wound therearound, and a stand for said drum and secured to the other end ofsaid cable.

3. A locating buoy comprising a drum containing a compartment for valuables and an entrance to said compartment, a door securely closing said entrance, a lever hinged at one end to the drum and at the other end fastened securely to the head of the drum diametrically opposite and engaging the door intermediate of its length, a cable wound on said drum, and a receptacle secured to the other end of said cable.

1. A locating buoy comprising a drum, a cable wound on said drum, and a box having collapsible sides and a cover loosely holding said drum and said stafii in the collapsed 'said sides upright and its bottom secured state of the latter in said groove. 10 to the outer end of said cable. Signed at the city of Toronto, this 22nd 5. A locating buoy comprising a drum day of April, 1914. having a longitudinal groove, a stafl? carry- I ALLAN MURRAY. ing a signal spring held to its upright posi- Witnesses: tion and hinged to said drum, and a cable M. BLAOKWELL, secured to said drum and Wound around W. G. HAMMOND.

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